Protesting against the decision by the German government to accept the peace treaty of Versailles, a group of soldiers under Wolfgang Kapp took control of Berlin on March 13, 1920. The trade unions called a general strike, which, after some doubt, was supported by the Ebert government. The strike paralyzed life in Berlin and contributed to the failure of the […]

According to the website 'Anecdotes on Kim Il Sung' (http://north-korea.narod.ru/anecdotes.htm) the North Korean leader visited a department store on March 13, 1958. Kim Il Sung (1912-1994) bought a pair of socks of inferior quality so that he would not stand out among the people.

Police Beat Up Prisoner on Prison Premises The Case of Political Prisoner, JNU Student, Hem Mishra The Nagpur police abused and beat up Hem Keshavdutt Mishra, student of Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University and Political Prisoner presently lodged in Nagpur Central Prison over the issue of applying handcuffs. They attacked him cruelly and injured him. This […] […]

from Jagdalpur Legal Aid Group A Protest is Planned The Sarpanch Sangh of Kuakonda Block, Dantewada, submitted an application to the SDM Dantewada seeking permission to hold a rally from village Palnar to village Kalepal, a few kilometers away. The applicatíon, duly signed by 24 sarpanches, was submitted yesterday (19th March) and the rally was […]

Introduction The rise of Podemos in the Spanish state — and of its counterpart Podem in Catalonia — has presented a new challenge to both the Catalan independence movement and to the traditional left in that subordinated national component of the Spanish state. Pablo Iglesias and other Podemos leaders, while indicating sympathy for self-determination of Cata […]

When it comes to the role of the state in development, Sri Lanka has witnessed an extremely sterile debate that has formulated the question as a choice between the state and the market. There are champions on both sides, increasingly encrusted in their ideological positions. The purpose of these comments is to try and break through this debate. It does not s […]

WPintroPic.jpg Online archive of Workers’ Playtime, a more-or-less regular class struggle-oriented journal produced between Feb ’83 and May ’85. We welcome abusive and hostile correspondence, unsuitable articles and boring cartoons. However we will tolerate excellence. Our address is on the back cover. read more […]

by Ayanda Kota, Pambazuka The Unemployed People’s Movement (UPM) was formed in August 2009 to respond to the crisis of unemployment and the commoditization of essential services in a society dominated by corruption and greed. As Steve Biko said, we blacks are tired of standing at the touchlines to witness a game that we should […]

18 July 2011 Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement The Victory in the Kennedy 12 Trial is a Victory for all the Poor in South Africa The Kennedy 12 have been acquitted of all the charges bought against them after the attack on our movement in September 2009. It is a great day for the 12, their […]

It’s encouraging that US unions are acknowledging the deep crisis facing labor and even the need for union democracy, as Labor Notes contributor Mark Brenner observes in his March 2015 column about the conference organized and hosted by the Albert Shanker Institute, an arm of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). blog_front: front page read […]

by Since the pressures of international financial capital and its subservient political elites will continue with the same if not greater intensity, it is also certain that a new cycle of social mobilization in Greece and the rest of Europe will begin again.read more

Edgard Sánchez Ramírez is a longtime member of the Revolutionary Workers Party (PRT), the Mexican section of the Fourth International. He is on the steering committee of the PRT and an active member of the Workers and People's Political Organization (OPT), a political organization founded by the Mexican Electrical Workers Union (SME) in 2011. In this in […]